“Malaysian mini-market worker in Singapore says her boss overloads her with work for over 13 hours/day but pays her only S$1.7K/month”

…A Malaysian working at a mini-market in Singapore shared on social media that she earns only S$1,700 a month despite working 13.5 hours a day.

She posted on the r/askSingapore Reddit forum on Tuesday (Dec 10) that she decided to move and work in Singapore to save money for her university fees in Malaysia.

However, after just two weeks on the job, she said she already feels mentally and physically drained as her boss has been overloading her with tasks and extending her work hours to 13.5 hours per day—or even longer.

“While my title is ‘staff,’ I feel like I’m doing almost everything in the store,” she said…

To make things worse, the worker said her boss owns two stores, and whenever an employee at the other store takes leave, she is forced to give up her rest days to work there instead.

“There’s no formal contract, and my overtime (OT) pay is just SGD 5 per hour, far below the standard 1.5x rate,” she wrote. She also described her living situation, noting that she resides in her employer’s house and must pay S$100 monthly for water bills.